GAME · 2012
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
- Developer
- Treyarch
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii U
25 archived facts 3 topics 2 sources Last reviewed Sep 2026
All facts (25)
- #001
Contains a major spoiler — show
After the final credits during the Avenged Sevenfold concert, you can see an older Alex Mason and Viktor Reznov dancing. In the next cut, Reznov is gone and Mason looks around confused. This is a reference to the first Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010), in which Mason saw Reznov in his mind throughout the game, believing he was really there.
- #002
Oliver North is a retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel who helped with the production of Call of Duty: Black Ops II and played a small role in the campaign. North portrays a fictionalized version of his younger self and accompanies Jason Hudson to Alaska to ask Alex Mason to help rescue Frank Woods.
- #003
Activision officially confirmed the game during its fourth-quarter earnings call on February 9, 2012, promising "meaningful innovation" for the series.
- #004
Ed Harris voiced the character Jason Hudson in the first Black Ops, but Michael Keaton provides Hudson's voice in Black Ops II.
- #005
The character Manuel Noriega is in fact a real person. In July 2014 he sued Activision for misrepresenting and using him in the game.
- #006
Author and defense expert Peter W. Singer acted as a consultant on the 2025 storyline of Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
- #007
Although Gary Oldman is still credited as the voice of Viktor Reznov, he is only heard briefly as a memory in the "Old Wounds" level. Viktor Reznov is only seen briefly in a flashback in the same level.
- #008
In developing Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Treyarch added multi-team games to online multiplayer, allowing matches to host three or more teams of players instead of the traditional two factions.
- #009
Contains a major spoiler — show
Even though you have to shoot Mason as Woods (believing he is Menendez), there is a way to keep him alive. Instead of shooting him in the head, shoot him in the leg, and he will fall to the ground as if dead either way. He will appear in a scene during the final title sequence. A flashback shows where the bullet hit his leg and explains how he survived the events of that day. He is shown to be very old, like Woods, and meets his son for the first time since leaving to look for Woods, and eventually re-enlists with the CIA (which causes him to be skipped and Woods to shoot him, believing he is Menendez), while his son is still a child.
- #010
Call of Duty: Black Ops II revised the Create-A-Class function so that players could choose their guns, attachments, weapon camouflage and perks for multiplayer matches.
- #011
The Kill Streak function in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which rewards players for killing other players, was revised and renamed Score Streaks.
- #012
This Call of Duty includes choices you can make that will affect the story, with different scenes and alternate endings.
- #013
In Call of Duty: Black Ops II, in-game rewards are unlocked by performing certain actions, such as killing other players or successfully capturing territory, rather than simply killing other players.
- #014
There is a hidden reference when you finish the game. The metal band Avenged Sevenfold appears with the song "Carry On".
- #015
The "wager matches" feature that appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops was removed from Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
- #016
Contains a major spoiler — show
To get the most preferred ending, when you have the option to shoot Harper or Menendez, you must choose to shoot him, and you must complete all Strike Force missions. You must also kill Defalco in the 6th Strike Force mission, so that the 5th Strike Force mission is not needed.
- #017
This Call of Duty includes choices you can make for the first time in the series.
- #018
Call of Duty: Black Ops II supports 3D when players use an HDMI cable with a 3D TV.
- #019
Contains a major spoiler — show
It is the first Call of Duty game in which you play as the villain.
- #020
In Call of Duty: Black Ops II, a 3D setting appears in the options menu before players enter multiplayer mode.
- #021
The soundtrack for Call of Duty: Black Ops II was composed by Jack Wall, while Trent Reznor, frontman of Nine Inch Nails and a film score composer, wrote the main theme.
- #022
The Call of Duty: Black Ops II soundtrack was issued with the Hardened Edition and Care Package releases and also sold on iTunes and Amazon, including two supplemental tracks by Brian Tuey and Mozart's "Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550 (Allegro Molto)".
- #023
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 is the first futuristic game in the series.
- #024
After the Call of Duty: Black Ops II campaign ends and the credits roll, Woods and Menendez perform with heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold on the song "Carry On", with Woods on drums and Menendez on rhythm guitar.
- #025
This game has 11 prestiges. It was going to be 15, but they stopped at 11.
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